Cheney Death Squads: Big Problem for our President?

Wel, the killer cat is out of the bag. In case you haven't heard, Dick Cheney had his own personal team of klillers.

"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command — JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him [Cheney] …

"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.

"Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us."

If our President pursues prosecution for this outrage, the "loyal opposition" will make his life hell and he will get nothing done. If he looks the other way, where is his sense of justice? I'm glad I'm not him. This issue is not going to go away — at least not easily.